Collection of popular Photomatix presets

[last update 17/5/2017, lot of things happened in this area as website’s moved/disappeared, prices changed and new presets bundles exists, see remarks in italics below]

It is just a year ago when I wrote and published article about Stuart’s Photomatix Pro Presets. I know from Google Analytics that this article remains still very popular. But time in the meantime progressed and currently more Photomatix Pro presets are available. Some of them are for free, some of them are offered for reasonable price. Below you will find collection of popular Photomatix Pro presets. If you know collection which is not listed here, please make comment below the article.

Free presets

Stuart’s Photomatix Presets – These 80 presets were made by Stuart Perry in 2009, the collection is still available for free. To download, find ‘Download’ icon in left sidebar.

HDR Made Easy presets – these 5 presets were created by Jimmy Batte and Steve Rich for free. Now linked to Jimmy Batte’s blog. (updated 20/5/2017 as original website does not exists)

Premium presets

Trey’s Photomatix presets – Do you know Trey Ratcliff? No? So check his blog Stuck In Customs, he is one of most popular HDR photographers. He is offering two packages ($19 each) and bundle of all presets together ($29). (updated 20/5/2017)

Aiken HDR Photomatix Pro Preset Bundle – it seems Aiken HDR is successor of HDR Made Easy (see updated link above in free presets section), however with paid versions of Photomatix presets. This one contains 80 presets for $2.99, there is also lightened version containing only 25 presets for $0.99. (added 20/5/2017)

Instalation tutorial

The installation of presets is pretty easy. Locate your directory where Photomatix Pro is installed. For my Win7 laptop the location is C:\Program Files\PhotomatixPro4\CustomPresets. I recommend to create subdirectories here, each one for one collection of presets. You unzip downloaded archive to the particular subdirectory. I also recommend to use short acronyms of presets collection for subdirectory names (for instance stuart, toman, aiken etc).

Now you can start Photomatix Pro application and proceed you bracketed raw images to create HDR image. Click Tone Mapping button on the left toolbar to make final tweak of image. The preset toolbar offers combo on the top, it contains list of subdirectories created above. Select one and you will see effect of each preset in the small thumbnail.

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Comments

Thanks so much for posting a link to our free presets! We hope everyone enjoys them! Too, we also offer our premium presets (85 that have been used in our published images) for $2.99. Enjoyed looking at your images and site!